{"id":216909,"date":"2025-07-01T02:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/southern-ocean-saltier-hotter-and-losing-ice-fast-as-decades-long-trend-unexpectedly-reverses"},"modified":"2025-07-01T02:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T07:04:38","slug":"southern-ocean-saltier-hotter-and-losing-ice-fast-as-decades-long-trend-unexpectedly-reverses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/southern-ocean-saltier-hotter-and-losing-ice-fast-as-decades-long-trend-unexpectedly-reverses","title":{"rendered":"Southern Ocean saltier, hotter and losing ice fast as decades-long trend unexpectedly reverses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/southern-ocean-saltier-hotter-and-losing-ice-fast-as-decades-long-trend-unexpectedly-reverses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a dramatic and unexpected shift in the Southern Ocean, with surface water salinity rising and sea ice in steep decline.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2015, Antarctica has lost sea ice equal to the size of Greenland\u2014the largest environmental shift seen anywhere on Earth in the last decades. The Southern Ocean is also getting saltier, and this unexpected change is making the problem worse.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, the ocean\u2019s surface freshened (becoming less salty), helping sea ice grow. Now, scientists say that trend has sharply reversed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a dramatic and unexpected shift in the Southern Ocean, with surface water salinity rising and sea ice in steep decline. Since 2015, Antarctica has lost sea ice equal to the size of Greenland\u2014the largest environmental shift seen anywhere on Earth in the last decades. The Southern Ocean is also getting saltier, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}